Atlas of Cardiac Anatomy: Heart Anatomy with Imaging Correlation, Surgical Landmarks, Variant Anatomy, and Clinical Application for Cardiology, Surgery, and Electrophysiology

Atlas of Cardiac Anatomy: Heart Anatomy with Imaging Correlation, Surgical Landmarks, Variant Anatomy, and Clinical Application for Cardiology, Surgery, and ElectrophysiologyMost cardiac anatomy atlases show you what the heart looks like. This one shows you what the heart looks like, why it is shaped the way it is, what it looks like across every imaging modality used in clinical practice, what anatomical variants exist and how common they are, and what the clinical consequences are when anatomy is misunderstood. That distinction defines every chapter in this book.The Atlas of Cardiac Anatomy is a comprehensive illustrated reference written for cardiologists, cardiac surgeons, electrophysiologists, interventional cardiologists, cardiothoracic surgeons, radiologists, and advanced trainees who require a procedurally relevant understanding of cardiac structure. It is organized not as a specimen tour but as a clinician's working framework built around how cardiovascular specialists actually think about, image, and operate on the heart.The book spans several chapters across six sections. Section I covers cardiac nomenclature, embryological anatomy, age-related structural changes, and a multimodal imaging primer addressing echocardiography, cardiac CT, cardiac MRI, and fluoroscopy. Sections II and III cover the right and left heart in full, including the right atrium, fossa ovalis, tricuspid valve, membranous septum, right ventricle, pulmonary root, pulmonary veins, left atrium, left atrial appendage, mitral valve, left ventricular outflow tract, and the aortic valve and root with a complete transcatheter valve replacement anatomical framework.Section IV addresses coronary artery anatomy, dominance patterns, anomalies, the coronary venous system, the complete conduction system from sinus node through the Purkinje network, and cardiac autonomic neuroanatomy including the ganglionated plexi and stellate ganglia. Section V covers the pericardium, great vessels, and a dedicated access anatomy chapter mapping surgical approaches, percutaneous entry pathways, and critical adjacent structures including the esophagus and phrenic nerves. Section VI is a systematic sex differences reference chapter with sex-stratified dimensional data across every major cardiac structure.Every chapter follows a five-layer framework covering gross morphology, architectural logic, multimodal imaging correlation, variant anatomy with prevalence data, and clinical consequence. Each chapter includes clinical pearls, patient safety alerts, and evidence-based summary boxes.The atlas contains several anatomical images from gross cardiac specimens, CT angiography, cardiac MRI, echocardiography, electrophysiology mapping, fluoroscopy, nuclear imaging, and histological preparations.Topics covered include triangle of Koch and AV node anatomy, transseptal puncture anatomy, left atrial appendage morphology and closure device planning, TAVR anatomical planning, pulmonary vein variant classification, epicardial access anatomy, coronary anomalies, conduction system injury mechanisms, and sex-differentiated cardiac dimensions.This atlas is designed to serve as both a learning resource and a long-term procedural reference for every specialist whose clinical work depends on a precise and imaging-correlated understanding of cardiac anatomy. Read more